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U.S. Air Force Project Aims to Transform Supercomputing
Virginia Tech professor Wu Feng is hoping his latest research will help revolutionize supercomputing.
Credit: Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech professor Wu Feng is working to increase simulation speeds of computational fluid dynamics for the U.S. Air Force's micro air vehicles (MAVs) project.
Feng, who helped design Virginia Tech's HokieSpeed supercomputer, has assembled a team comprised of aerospace and mechanical engineers, computer scientists, and mathematicians from Virginia Tech and North Carolina State University to work on the project. Feng says the use of accelerator-based supercomputers such as HokieSpeed could potentially usher in a new age in multi- and many-core parallel computing by coupling innovative advances in algorithms and mathematics with engineering progress in the co-design of hardware and software in supercomputing. He notes that this offers the promise of multiplicative speed-ups.
The researchers will develop computational fluid dynamics software and a supporting hardware-software ecosystem for the simulation of unmanned MAVs. The team should be able to "achieve substantial speed-up over current simulations and provide significantly better utilization of the underlying and co-designed hardware-software of a supercomputer," Feng says.
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